Questions about the food log

[TXALLY]

I eat really customized foods/meals. I make most everything from scratch. Is there a way to enter in my recipe for dish, divide it by the total servings, then log the food that's been eaten? Adding each indivual item for my salad, or chili, each time and trying to measure it in one serving it really alot more complicated than it needs to be. Anyone have any suggestions on how to make this more effeciant with out use 3 other apps to get the info that i need?

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[Shinpiden]

I’m new to Fitbit and only given the Food Log a cursory look; however, I am most impressed with My Fitness Pal as far as logging of meals.

You may want to take a look and yes it has precisely what you describe… a place to enter recipes (using each ingredient ) and then https://www.myfitnesspal.com/ does the calculations (figures calories (over two-million items in their database)) once you have entered the number of portions the recipe makes.

Additionally, https://www.myfitnesspal.com/ links perfectly with Fitbit so information goes back and forth between the two thus providing an extraordinary detailed set of tools.

The absolute best part is it is FREE!

…and no I don’t work nor derive any compensation from My Fitness Pal 

[55goingon30]

Yep, MyFitnessPal is a great program, it's what I use to log everything, my food, exercise and water it links to fitbit and keeps you completely on track.  The two working together is a great system.

[A_Lurker]

I tend to use a combination of the Fitbit logging and an old piece of software I've had for years called FitDay.  It's based on the US food database, so it doesn't have a lot of prepared food in it.  This works well when I'm cooking from scratch.  If I'm cooking a big batch of something I log it into Fitday as 1 portion, then make a by weight or fl oz entry and copy in that 1 portion recipe.  Then I can choose what size of portion I want to take.  I log that into Fitbit.

I don't use myfitnesspal but I believe it's probably one of the better food logging sites online.  It integrates with Fitbit so I'd recommend you use it.

[HBaines]

You say you us myfitnesspal for exercise?  I have found that the myfitnesspal does not get exercise data from fitbit....but if I manually log something into myfitness pal, it does load into fitbit.....not sure why it doesn't vice versa.

[WalkingDogs]

I recently transitioned from calorie counter (which has a recipe generator) to the fitbit food log and I ran into the same problem. The only thing I can find that is close to the recipe generator is the "Meal" tool on the fitbit app. You can add everything in but you do have to divide your portions.

For example I make a homemade balsalmic vinaigrette. On calorie counter I would just create a recipe - 3 T olive oil, 1 T balsalmic vinegar, 1/2 tsp italian seasoning, 1 clove garlic - make 4 servings. With the fitbit meal tool I enter it as 3/4 T olive oil, 1/4 T balsalmic vinegar, 1/8 tsp italian seasoning, 1/4 clove garlic. Then I can just add the meal of "Balsalmic Vinaigrett Dressing" to my salad whenever I need.

But I couldn't find any type of recipe generator on fitbit (which is annoying...) I use google to convert the amounts by serving size. So far I have been able to enter most of my recipes into the meal tool on fitbit, it just takes a little longer.

[liz-C128]

I've just recently needed to track my sugar intake and am using Myfitnesspal, but can't get the food data to carry over from my Fitbit...